The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-09
THROUGH THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In Wsat virginia
A aud Vicinity. t N

Elihu Gregg, the old Kingwood Court
house burner, was arrested last week In
Fayette county, Pa, Tor horse stealing.
Marion and Fayetts counties, which
issued license to sell liquor last year, have
refused to do for the current year, which
commenced May /. ~.
The Buckhannon Banner has been en-.
larged 10 an eight column paper. Tho
Banner was 90 good a paper TINT the only
way Mr.. McCreery could improve 1t was
To make 1t bigger.
Capt. John Peters, Of Buckeye, Poca.
hontas comfy, brought a raft Of IS 900 feet
Of walnut boards, last Sunday, down the
Greenbrier 10 Ronceverte, q distance OF
sixty.two miles, In eight hours and forty
minutes. .a.N.
The case OF tho State against Wilbur
Bias on an indictment for murder, was
tried In the Circuit Court OF Mason county
at Point Pleasant last week, and resulted
In verdict Of neutrality-suspicious. year in
the penitentlary.
The Ronceverte Negs says tho railroad
freight charges on cattle shipped to East.
ern markets have been reduced about 25
per cent. At Ronceverte the reduction
to Baltimore Is from 266 TO sos per car.
load; to Philadelphia, from SIS to ST.
and 10 New York from SS4 to SOL.
An ordinance was proposed at the last
meeting OF the Huntington City Council
granting to J. L. Caldwell the "exclusive
right and privilege OF making, owning and
constructing street railway tracks on and
over the avenues and streets Of and in the
city Of Huntington for fifty years."
City Assessor Charles W. Phelps, has
Just completed the censuBof this town and
llnds that the population is little over
5000, not onumerating tho strangers at
work here on the bridge. This ia m in.
crease OF 1000 since the census taken In
1880. Boom!-Point Pleasant Register.
The suit OF Mrs. S. E.Moore vs.. the City
Of Huntington, for damages for physical
Injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a fall
from defective culvert near the Ensign
Works, last November, was tried In the
Circuit Court Wednesday, and verdict
rendered in favor Of the plaintiff for ST ,O5O
Last weeks Jackson B,tyle says: Yes
terdsy there were IL cars on the sidings
~ Llllb pItCe, Allluk tuem WILL ulRu lull
At los p. n. the local with 10 cars and a
tender, coming south, arrived, as also the
regular mail train with its usual number
Of baggage and passenger cars arrived
here, where they met the regular paasen-
ger train and the local going north. There
were in all over ninety pieces OF rolling
stock. 1t took considerable time and ma
neuvering to get the various trains pas,
each other and started on their way north
and south. .l
A double tenement house at Hunting.
ton was badly wrecked by an explosion o.
gas in the cellar, generated from five
gallon can Of gasoline. A son OF Mr.
Blanchard, about six years old, was sent
to the cellar and struck match to light
a lantern. The gas ignited and a fearful
explosion followed, shattsriug the cellar
walls, splintering the kitchen floor and
straining every wall and timber in the
building. The kitchen doors and win.
dows, with their castings, were blown out
some OF them q distance OF twenty feet.
The kitchen parted from the building and
the roof WAS raised and broken. The
floors OF the dining rooms were badly in.
|jured. Mr.. Blanchard's little son escaped
death by miracle. The exposed parts o.
his body were badly burned and he was
severely shocked.